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Kate Starling is an oil painter who lives and works in the canyons of southern Utah.

Educated in geology, she spent years working outside as a geologist and national park ranger. After formal academic art training in the 1980's she devoted her work to painting the landscape. Schooled in the importance of direct painting from life she spent 15 years painting outside, learning the way light plays on the land. Now she splits her time between the roadways and trails surrounding her home and the studio.

Starling's paintings portray the natural world and focus on a communicating a sense of place, atmosphere and dazzling light, retaining the immediacy of the painting experience. She knows the strength of emotion that the landscape seen in a particular light can trigger in her - she strives to paint in such a way that triggers memory and emotion from the people who see her work.